Oh for heavens sake!
How many men would be able to tolerate giving birth without drugs?
And menstruate?
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Pain catastrophizing linked to opioid use, particularly for women, Stanford study shows
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And menstruate?
Forbin
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Yeah, I don't get this either. "Catastrophizing" is anticipating some event with potentially bad consequences and then obsessing about worst case scenarios.
"Pain catastrophizing," is apparently some kind of "term of art" with a different meaning, like amplifying your current pain by focusing all of your attention on it.
RogerBlack
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And womens amplifiers go to 11.